#Dante’s Inferno

[cherry-nosebleed]

stills — Longlegs, 2024

[vacillator]

[windwenn]

Virgil divine comedy fanart but make it slightly funky (I discovered the chromatic aberration feature on procreate) (it is so much better than on clip studio)

[maybesprout-wings]

For the circle of fraud Hozier really said “if I was death incarnate you’d live forever, that’s exactly how much I don’t fuck with you” and hid it behind the happiest song on the album

[p-clodius-pulcher]

Do you guys think that Judas was awkward in the mouth of Satan in the ninth circle of hell cuz the two other guys he was trapped forever with know each other. Like do you think Cassius and Brutus had a lot of inside jokes and Judas would try to join in and they would have to gently let him down. While being chewed on.

[pitchcanker]

THE SIXTH CIRCLE OF HELL: HERESY

[cowboyscaviar]

me showing up in the second circle of hell: where is GWENCELOT⁉️

dante and virgil (simultaneously): GET OUT‼️

[oolonginus]

INFERNO, CANTO IX

This is primarily inspired by the extremely compelling analysis from Teodolinda Barolini’s Commento on Digital Dante: https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/inferno/inferno-9/

The background image of the second page is Botticelli’s Map of Hell (La Mappa dell’Inferno)

There’s an Orphic moment in each canticle at the ninth canto (no surprise!), and in the Inferno, there’s the fear that despite the fact that Dante’s path is ensured by God’s will, he and Virgil will be forced to turn back.

At this crucial moment, Dante looks to Virgil as his trusted guide, but in reassuring him, Virgil reveals that the reason he knows the way is due to the unsettling fact that he was once the instrument of evil forces:

And what is it that summoned spirits are offered in exchange for their services? 🩸🩸🩸

[only-one-star-reviews-er]

rip dante you would’ve loved hazbin hotel

[aliendeity]

oh so when dante alighieri writes bible fanfiction where he puts all the people he hates in an endless torture scenario, it’s considered “classic literature” and “epic poetry.” but when i do it, it’s considered “mental illness,” and “cause for concern” 🙄

[cassiusfan20]

mmm mmmmm yummy

[mattydemise]

de oppresso liber

[windwenn]

The vibe rn (second circle of hell)

[awestruck-atrophy]

what’s ur favorite Hozier song from the new album HAHA I GOT YOU THE CORRECT ANSWER IS THE ENTIRE ALBUM LISTENED THROUGH IN ONE SITTING AS HOZIER INTENDED SO THAT WE CAN DESCEND SLOWLY THROUGH THE CIRCLES OF HELL AHAHAHAHAHAHHA

[craqueluring]

i want to talk about how the parallel between gideon and bedelia mirrors the parallel between pope nicholas iii and lucifer in dante's inferno

contrapasso: "the divine punishment of a sinner mirrors the sin being punished"

in dante's inferno canto 19, the pilgrim and virgil are in the eighth circle of the inferno where those guilty of simony (corrupt churchmen) are punished. these people (including pope nicholas iii) are eternally, with flaming feet, upside down in baptismal font-like holes. 

their contrapasso is their baptism being perverted in the same way they perverted the church. upside down in holes like baptismal fonts, their feet are "baptized" with fire instead of their heads being baptized with water. 

(left is pope nicholas iii's flaming feet. right is dante and virgil reaching the other side of earth after climbing lucifer's body, where lucifer's legs stick out.)

in mark musa's notes for canto 19, this specific line lit my brain up like fireworks

"in the final canto of the inferno…dante pauses and looks up to see the raised legs of lucifer protruding from the crevice in which he is frozen, like a magnification of the legs of nicholas. just as nicholas defrauded god's church, so lucifer tried to defraud god himself"

(the beginning of gideon and bedelia's contrapasso-esque punishments. i just noticed the same leg is the first to go for both. and theyre both wearing blue. hmmm....)

in november, i made a post connecting gideon and bedelia's fates in hannibal: their limbs being cooked and eaten one by one in front of them. both gideon and bedelia were living lives that were not theirs to live. gideon as the chesapeake ripper, and bedelia as hannibal's companion in italy. so, they both get to see how it feels to (literally) have a part of them, their identity, their lives, taken from them, just as they took those things from another. the divine punishment of a sinner mirrors the sin being punished. 

just like nicholas defrauded god's church,

gideon mocked the chesapeake ripper

so lucifer tried to defraud god himself,

bedelia tried to mock hannibal and will themselves.

[geekyanglophile]

I got my vinyl of unreal unearth today (first time I’ve actually gotten a preordered vinyl on release day). For anyone who doesn’t have a physical copy, the album listing has all the songs assigned to circles:

Descent - De Selby Part 1; De Selby Part 2

First Circle (Limbo) - First Time

Second Circle (Lust) - Francesca; I Carrion (Icarian)

Third Circle (Gluttony) - Eat Your Young

Fourth Circle (Greed) - Damage Gets Done

Fifth Circle (Wrath) - Who We Are

Sixth Circle (Heresy) - Son of Nyx; All Things End

Seventh Circle (Violence) - To Someone From a Warm Climate (Uiscefhuarithe); Butchered Tongue

Eighth Circle (Fraud) - Anything But; Abstract (Psychopomp)

Ninth Circle (Treachery) - Unknown/Nth

Ascent - First Light

Bonus (this vinyl’s so pretty):